BIOL342 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Plasmid, Immunology
7 Sep 2013
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Biotechnology- study of the industrial production of commercial products that are made via the metabolic action of microorganisms. Fermentation for example, for the preservation of grains into beer. Modern methods of biotech require knowledge of the manipulation of genes. This form of manipulation for the production of useful goods/services via living organisms is known as. Several techniques have been derived to isolate genes and to transfer them form one organism to another; aka recombinant dna technology. Recombinant dna technology the first commercial product of this was insulin, which is to treat diabetes the dna sequence for insulin was made, and was transplanted into a plasmid that could be maintained in e. coli.
